Press reports revealed that Arsenal playmaker Mesut Ozil
recently received a financial reward of 8 million pounds,
equivalent to approximately 10 million and 400 thousand dollars.
The reward was awarded to Ozil after the “gunners” failed to
secure a transfer contract for him in the “summer Mercato”
despite the lack of a place for him in coach Mikel Arteta’s
strategy, according to the British newspaper “Mirror”.
Ozil did not play any match for Arsenal for several months, but
the English club awarded the German 8 million pounds under
the “loyalty bonus” in September, according to the sports site “The Athletic”.
Ozil joined the London club in 2013 from Real Madrid in a deal
worth 42.5 million pounds.
Ozil joined the ranks of the London club in 201 and signed in
January 2018, a new contract according to which he will remain
with Arsenal until the summer of 2021, to be the highest income
earner in the club at 350,000 pounds a week.
Ozil played all of Arsenal’s first ten matches after Arteta took
office in December, but the former Arsenal midfielder kept him
out of the next 13 matches, attributing this to “footballing reasons”.
Arteta, and many Arsenal players, agreed to reduce their salaries
by 12.5 percent in April, due to the financial repercussions of
the emerging Coronavirus, but Ozil did not vote on this
reduction, which made him say in one of his press statements
that he believed that “this decision may weaken my chances of
decline.” On the green rectangle. ”
Ozil fears that there will be an agenda to confront him that will
make his remaining term in north London difficult, despite confirmation
that he will remain at the club until the last day of his contract.
